DAIR's Timnit Gebru on how doomers and their "machine-god narrative" are feeding the hype machine and distracting us from the real harms of AI:
https://www.wired.com/story/one-of-ais-fiercest-critics-says-all-the-doom-talk-is-meant-to-distract-us/
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